CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 53, 31 October 1891, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

(PEn UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) London, October 28. Mr H. H. Champion predicts Hint one effect of the death of Mr Parnell will be (hat it will give a belter opportunity to the House of Commons to deal with domestic questions. Mr-Robert Giffcn, the statistician, gave evidence before the Commission to the effect that (he arcraee earnings of coalminers in ISnglend did not amount. to more than £1 per week. The total quantity oE wheat and flour afloat for the TTnitcd Kingdom is 2,120,* 000 quarters, nnd for the Continent 2,---148,000 quarters. Ttjnis, October 28. During the celebration of a wedding in this city the wall of the building tell on the parly, killing 18. . Pabis, October 28. The official. report of the Mocrano railway accident states that only two' per* sons were killed. • y- . Vienna, October 28. .It is reported herel. that 40 000 rebels besiege Sana, the capital of Yeman, and that. the .Turkish. Commander has asked for a reinforcements of 20,000 men. October 29. The. Grenadier Guards, stationed at Windsor complained that the rations supplied them were- unfit for consumption. The officers ordered the men to eat the food, but tliey declined, and threw it into the barricks' square; The men haye been confined to barracks, and some of the corporals Have been arrested. The .affair caused considerable excite* ment.. .; ' ;■■•';- . October 30. The Holburn Guardian. .has. informed the Government of tMe filthy condition of General , Booth's Clerkenwell shelters, and complains that the leader of the Salvation Army is attracting the submerged tenth of London to the district and foistering them on the ratepayers. New Yob'k, October 30. Unconfirmed reports are in circulation that tlie 'United States has declared war against Chili; also, that' the, cruiser San Francisco has been ordered to return to Valparaiso, and all furloughs of naval officers have been cancelled as all vessels were preparing for .instant service.;- The reports go on to say that Chili, in reply to the action of the United! States Govojniment, states that its judges are inquiring into the circumstances surrounding the quarrel with the Baltimore's crew; and that American demands are not acceptable to Chili. There is an impression abroad that United States " spread-eagleism" is intended to influence the New York and Ohio elections. Hoso Kong, October 28. A severe earthquake has been experienced at Hiogo, a seaport town of Japan on the south-west coast of the Island of Niphon, at the head of the Gulf of Osaka. Considerable damage was done, and three hundred persons were killed, Valpahaiso, October 29. Owing to the defiant reply of the Chilian Government to the United States the situation is regarded as grave and action is imminent. Bkeiin, October 28. The man Schultz, who was arrested on a charge of being connected with, the murder of women under similar circum^ stances to the Whitechapel murders, succeeded in proving an alibi, and was" discharged. Received October 81, 11.30 a.m. London, October 30. A conspiracy has been discovered in Cork to murder William O'Brien.